Academy Award winner Robert De Niro has signed on for the main function in Netflix‘s upcoming crime thriller film The Whisper Man, primarily based on Alex North’s bestselling 2019 novel of the identical title. Manufacturing on the challenge is predicted to start in spring on the East Coast.
This marks De Niro’s newest collaboration with the streamer, after the acclaimed 2019 gangster film The Irishman. Moreover the upcoming crime film, he can even subsequent be seen in Netflix’s upcoming political thriller miniseries Zero Day, which serves as his first main TV challenge because the lead.
What’s The Whisper Man about?
“The movie revolves round a widow crime author who, after his 8-year-old son is kidnapped, seems to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for assist, solely to find a reference to the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer often called The Whisper Man,” reads the movie’s official synopsis.
The Whisper Man will likely be directed by James Ashcroft from a screenplay written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. The movie is produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, and Michael Disco for AGBO, with Kassee Whiting and Marcus Viscidi serving as govt producers.
“AGBO is happy to be embarking on our sixth movie with our unbelievable companions at Netflix,” Russo-Otstot stated in an announcement. “The Whisper Man is a gripping thriller however at its core is a poignant and sophisticated story of father and sons. We’re grateful to have one of many best actors of his era, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the exceptional James Ashcroft directing.”
(Supply: Deadline)
